The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. to Which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author ..
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. to Which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author ..
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
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99 Yet judged with coolness, though he sung with fire : His precepts teach but what his works inspire. 660 Our critics take a contrary extreme, They judge with fury, but they write with phlegm : Nor suffers Horace more in wrong translations By wits, than critics in as wrong quotations. See Dionysius Hmner's thoughts refine. And call new beauties forth from every line! Fancy and art in gay Petronius please, The scholar's learning with the courtier's ease. In grave QuintiUan's copious work we fin...d The justest rules and clearest method join'd : 670 Thus useful arms in magazines we place. All ranged in order, and disposed with grace, But less to please the eye than arm the hand, Still fit for use, and ready at command. Thee, bold Longinus ! all the Nine inspire, And bless their critic with a poet's fire: An ardent judge, who, zealous in his trust. With warmth gives sentence, yet is always just. Whose own example strengthens all his laws. And is himself that great sublime he draws. 680 Thus long succeeding critics justly reign'd, licence repress'd and useful laws ordain'd : Learning and Rome alike in empire grew.
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